Homefront

Lots of wartime atrocities happen in Homefront: Mass graves, the brutal immolation of enemies and allies and the slaughter of innocents.

But a real-world atrocity hit publisher THQ’s stock yesterday in the wake of lukewarm reviews for its new first-person shooter. The company’s share price went from $5.94 to $4.69, a drop of more than …

War’s a staple setting a huge chunk of the hundreds of big-budget video games that come out every year. Last year’s best-selling games–Halo: Reach and Call of Duty: Black Ops–both took place in the midst of military actions.

But there’s one thing most war games fail to communicate and that’s the tragedy that results from all the …

War may be hell, but it turns out that promotional stunts for videogame war aren’t exactly a cakewalk, either. When THQ released thousands of red balloons into the air to promote the company’s upcoming Homefront game, it was meant to suggest South Korean attempts to send messages of hope to North Korea, the country behind the US invasion …

War video games tend to use place in one of two ways. The first method puts players on unfamiliar territory and the battles to save everything you hold dear take place in a faraway land, where you’re taking the fight to a foreign enemy. The other way happens with recognizable places in peril, and delivers moments like the upcoming Grand …

Hot on the heels of announcing their partnership with horror auteur Guillermo Del Toro, THQ debuted a new gamemaking facility in the heart of Montreal. The new studio will focus on hardcore games and will be built around Patrice Désilets. At Ubisoft, Désilets worked on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and was a Creative Director for …